Katie Price immediately FaceTimed her husband Lee Andrews on his birthday after insisting he does in fact have a PhD on Good Morning Britain - despite ongoing claims he's just a conman.

The former glamour model, 47, appeared on the show to talk to hosts Susanna Reid and Ed Balls about her new marriage to Lee, who she tied the knot with after a whirlwind romance. 

Since announcing their marriage, Lee has been accused of being a 'scammer' amid a host of boasts about his life, including his statement that he is a millionaire businessman with a PHD from Cambridge University and links to Elon Musk.

Nonetheless, Katie insisted that Lee does have a PhD as she appeared on GMB, telling hosts Susanna, 55, and Ed, 59, it was instead from a 'Spanish' university. 

Soon after the TV appearance she was seen stepping out near the studios where she held up the phone to show who she was talking to.

Katie was seen in casual mode wearing an Adidas sweatshirt, drawstring joggers and received a surprise video call from husband Lee on her phone. 

Last week, Lee took to Instagram to make further claims about his life, including a post about be coming a 'future trillionaire', detailing a 'mysterious income' and being a member of 'the 1%'.

Katie has previously hit back against criticism, insisting that he was 'no cat-fisher or scammer', telling The Sun: 'I haven't gone for a con man... please be happy for me.'

She even told fans that she had seen proof of his university degree and PhD, saying: 'There was so much paperwork, his PHD, is like in a binder like that.

'I proper looked at everything, because the stamps, they're like wax some of them, and you can't, do you know what I mean? You can't fake.

'You know when you've got certificates and it's like the watermarks in them, it's all like that. Everything he's shown me is so legit, I'm not stupid. They're not copies, they're originals.'

But claims that Lee had been to Cambridge were then debunked by the publication, as the university said they 'could not find a record of Lee being registered as a student' t the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. 

Nonetheless, Katie insisted that Lee DOES have a PhD as she appeared on GMB, on Monday.

Host Ed began: 'His passport says that he's a doctor, it's reported that he has a PhD from Cambridge, but Cambridge University said they had never heard of him.' 

Katie responded: 'He doesn't have a PhD from Cambridge, it's one in Spain.

'That's for him to say that he's got his PhD, but it's not from Cambridge, I don't know where that came from, he hasn't got a PhD from Cambridge at all but he has got a PhD.

'I've seen everything I need to see, on his diplomatic passport, it's Doctor Lee Andrews, on his normal passport, it's Wesley Lee Andrews.'

Elsewhere in the interview Katie hit back at her 'disrespectful' critics as she appeared on GMB for a tell-all chat about her new marriage.  

Katie married the businessman at the One&Only Royal Mirage hotel in Dubai in January, leaving her family, including her mother Amy Price 'traumatised' - and fans concerned that she 'didn't know' who she was marrying. 

However, the media personality took to the ITV daytime show to hit back against critics, insisting she was 'happy' and that she can 'make her own decisions'.  

Susanna opened up the chat by admitting that she would be 'concerned' if she was a friend of her, knowing she had married a man she had just met, explaining: 'If you were a friend of mine... I think I would be concerned about you. 

'I'm not sure you've had time to get to know the person to whom you are now married, so why the whirlwind?'  

Hitting back against the presenter, Katie began: 'Do you ever really know anyone? If you look at my past marriages, did I ever know they would be what they would be Sometimes I don't think you can ever know who anyone is... 

'For me, I've gone through so much, so many different relationships, and I normally went from one to the other... before I've always been in toxic, coercive, controlling, mental abuse, physical abuse relationships. 

'Now, I now know the signs of red flags and all of this, I am older, I can make my own decisions and there's nothing to say that you have to wait for anything.

'It's hard for anyone to understand. It just feels so right, I've only been in love twice before that, with Dane Bowers and Peter [Andre]. 

'With Lee, it's so different to every other relationship, and it works for me.'